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PILGRIMS  AND  PIONEERS 

Old  Plymouth  Trails , by  Winthrop  Packard , $5.00,  Small, 
Maynard  & Co.,  Boston . On  the  Trail  of  the  Pioneers,  by 
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the  Old  Southwest,  by  Archibald  Henderson,  $3.00,  Century  Co. 
New  York . 1920 . 

In  these  volumes  the  progress  of  the  American  idea,  sweeping  in 
our  time  with  the  power  of  armies  over  the  seas  to  the  Old  World, 
is  traced  for  us  from  its  first  oversea  crossing : a vague  and  shape- 
less dream  it  was  then  in  the  hearts  of  a handful  of  English  men 
and  women  bound  for  the  shores  of  Virginia  and  Massachusetts. 
We  follow  its  march  westward  with  those  first  dreamers’  descend- 
ants and  their  companions,  who  had  demonstrated  the  Ameri- 
can idea  in  concrete,  if  crude,  forms  of  government  and  social 
brotherhood,  over  the  mountains  to  Kentucky,  to  Ohio,  and  on  to 
Oregon  and  the  Golden  Gate.  To-day  echoes  familiarly  of  yes- 
terdays. Faith  and  fearlessness  are  the  American  heritage.  And, 
as  someone  has  said,  there  is  one  thing  stronger  than  armies,  “an 
idea  whose  time  has  come.”  We  shall  not  lay  any  one  of  these 
three  books  down  without  a healthful  stirring  of  thought.  An 
author  can  do  only  his  own  part  to  make  his  book  vital;  the 
reader  must  do  the  rest,  which  is  not  necessarily,  of  course,  to 
accept  the  author’s  conclusions  but  to  use  them  to  sharpen  his 
own  mental  blades. 

“Old  Plymouth  Trails”  is  not  primarily  a book  of  history.  It 
is  a book  of  nature  lore  by  a disciple  of  Thoreau.  But  the  natural- 
ist could  not  follow  the  scent  of  the  mayflower  into  these  historic 
woods  without  picturing  to  himself  some  early  Pilgrim,  after  the 
first  cruel  winter  at  Plymouth  had  passed,  lured  forestward  by 
the  “endearing,  enticing  fragrance”  on  the  raw  wind,  so  reminis- 


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cent  of  the  “may”  or  hawthorn  lanes  of  his  English  home. 
He  fancies  the  homesick  Pilgrim  stopping  to  look  about  for  haw- 
thorn, then  discovering  the  mayflower  among  the  oak  leaves  at 
his  feet  and  stooping  to  pluck  it  with  something  like  adoration 
welling  up  in  his  heart.  “It  may  not  have  been  that  way  at 
all,”  he  admits,  “but  someone  found  that  first  mayflower  and 
loved  and  named  it.”  He  makes  a few  kindly  thrusts  at  the 
decriers  of  the  Puritans,  and  he  subscribes  to  Mrs.  Hemans’s 
much  derided  lines  about  the  “stern  and  rock-bound  coast.”  It 
would  seem  that  the  boulders,  which  make  Manomet  shore  and 
Plymouth  beach  “rock-bound,”  were  the  first  pilgrims  to  Ply- 
mouth ; and  their  stern  rugged  character  not  inappropriately 
symbolized  the  men  who  later  landed  among  them.  Plymouth 
Rock  itself,  so  the  author  gaily  tells  us,  “came  joy-riding”  from 
some  granite  ledge  “up  Boston  way  ” only  a few  hundred  thousand 
years  before  Mary  Chilton  arrived  to  set  foot  upon  it. 

The  second  Great  Crossing  is  the  inspiration  of  Professor 
Henderson’s  pen.  In  his  pages  we  follow  the  migratory  bands 
of  English,  Ulster  Scots,  or  Irish  Presbyterians,  and  Germans, 
who  settled  the  back  country  of  Virginia  and  North  Carolina  and 
carried  the  American  idea  across  the  Appalachians  into  Kentucky 
and  Tennessee.  He  has  searched  musty  records  innumerable 
for  material  about  these  hardy  pioneers,  and  has  collected  many 
facts  and  incidents  which  have  not  before  been  included  in  the 
secondary  literature  on  this  period.  The  result  is  an  important 
contribution  to  history.  As  the  author  points  out  in  his  signifi- 
cant introduction,  the  story  of  these  settlers  “is  the  history  of 
the  growth  and  evolution  of  American  democracy.  ” 

“On  the  Trail  of  the  Pioneers”  shows  the  onward  sweep  of 
the  American  idea  over  the  continent.  Along  every  trader’s 
trace,  Indian  path,  and  buffalo  trail,  north,  south,  west  to  the 
Pacific,  the  marches  echo.  The  effect  is  of  a vast  panorama,  the 
scenes  connected  only  by  the  figure  of  the  pioneer.  Dr.  Faris 
retires  as  author  and  becomes  editor  for  the  diaries  of  the  men  and 
women  who  set  out  from  practically  every  eastern  State  to  ad- 
venture in  the  unknown  hinterland.  Clearly  it  has  been  a labor 
of  love  for  the  author  to  select  passages  from  the  graphic,  often 
ill-spelled,  journals  of  those  hardy  folk,  who  knew  the  uses  of  the 
rifle  so  much  better  than  the  abuses  of  the  pen.  What  they  set 


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down  was  a brief,  vigorous,  unstudied  record  of  daily  events  and 
impressions;  and  it  is  instructive  to  note  how  sincerity  unaided 
achieves  a certain  style.  One  reader  at  least  wishes  that  Dr. 
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From  the  viewpoint  of  the  Newest  Thought,  registered  on  the 
last  of  August,  1920,  and  still  changing,  the  opinions  of  Mrs. 
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of  technique  to  understand  them;  but  they  are  a mere  prelude  to 
the  gay,  the  acute,  the  cheerful  essays  called  “Broome  Street 
Straws.”  Here  there  is  something  to  everybody’s  taste.  A 
rabid  Prohibitionist  who  was  ill  of  the  “flu”  writes  to  me  that  the 
essay  called  “The  Pub”  drove  away  that  melancholy  which 
threatens  with  gloom  even  the  most  cheerful  of  “flu”  patients. 
Indeed,  the  Prohibitionist  seems  to  have  been  so  touched  by  Mr. 
Holliday’s  paragraphs  about  the  English  barmaids  that  he  ex- 
pressed the  conviction  that  if  the  refining  influence  of  women  had 
made  the  saloon  into  a salon , Prohibition  might  not  have  been  so 
necessary ! 

The  writers  of  prefaces  have  become  intolerable  aristocrats  in 
literature.  They  will  insist  on  contributing  “forewords”  to 
nearly  every  book  that  comes  out,  and  their  privileges  have  be- 
come so  obnoxious  that  it  is  time  their  heads  were  cut  off,  as  the 
heads  of  all  privileged  aristocrats  ought  to  be.  Their  authors  are 
always  such  stately  white  swans  as  might  have  drawn  the  boat 
of  Lohengrin;  and  Mr.  James  Oppenheim’s  swan,  the  late  Mr. 
Randolph  Bourne,  is  more  stately,  more  impeccable,  more  immacu- 
late than  all  the  other  recent  literary  swans  put  together.  Mr. 
Oppenheim  tells  us  that  “this  book  relates  to  the  war  and  the 
present  crisis  of  the  world.  It  does  a great  service  for  our  country. 
Without  it  our  showing  would  be  weak  and  impoverished  com- 
pared with  the  Older  Nations.  We  may  rejoice  that  as  England 
had  her  Bertrand  Russell,  France  her  Rolland  and  Barbusse, 
Germany  her  Liebknecht  and  Nicolai,  so  America  had  her  Ran- 
dolph Bourne.” 

Mr.  Bourne  was  a Socialist — it  is  not  easy  to  say  of  what  school; 
but  it  is  quite  evident  that  he  looked  on  everything  that  is  as  wrong. 
He  reversed  the  theory  of  Candide  that  this  is  the  best  of  all 
possible  worlds.  Nevertheless,  there  are  pages  of  this  book  that 
can  be  read  with  great  profit  by  any  student  of  the  evolution  of 
our  institutions.  The  “Unfinished  Fragment  on  the  State”  is 
interesting  and  illuminating,  and  ought  to  be  provocative  of 
serious  thought. 

Maurice  Francis  Egan. 

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THE  GREAT  DAYS  OF  THE  LAW 

Arguments  and  Speeches  of  William  Maxwell  Evarts , Edited  by 

Sherman  Evarts , 3 vols.,  $ 20.00 , Macmillan  Co.,  New  York, 

1919 . 

These  volumes  carry  us  back  to  the  great  days  of  the  American 
Bar  when  the  law  was  still  a profession,  when  leisure  was  abundant 
and  a time  limit  of  argument  was  unknown,  when  the  eloquence 
of  Daniel  Webster  was  fresh  in  the  memories  of  forensic  orators 
and  his  stately  periods  set  the  fashion  of  the  time.  These  were 
the  days  of  great  lawyers,  great  causes,  and  great  opportunities; 
the  days  when  the  lawyer  won  fame  and  fortune  in  the  court 
room,  not  in  the  office;  the  days  of  antislavery  agitation,  of  civil 
war,  and  of  reconstruction,  with  all  the  new  questions  to  which 
the  disturbed  condition  of  the  country  gave  rise. 

Mr.  Evarts  was  well  fitted  to  shine  at  any  period  of  our  history. 
Descended  from  Roger  Sherman  he  inherited  the  qualities  of  the 
lawyer  and  the  statesman,  while  from  his  father,  Jeremiah 
Evarts,  he  might  have  drawn  the  religious  zeal  and  stern  nature 
of  the  Puritans.  He  was  born  in  Boston,  graduated  at  Yale,  and 
studied  law  at  Harvard,  or  as  he  once  said,  following  Mr.  James 
C.  Carter  who  in  a speech  at  a Harvard  dinner  had  compared  him 
to  a ship  launched  at  Yale  but  fitted  at  Harvard,  “Yes,  gentlemen, 
it  is  true  that  I got  my  education  at  Yale,  and  took  on  my  brass 
at  Harvard,”  a remark  which  drew  from  Mr.  Carter  the  rejoinder, 
“I  leave  it  to  you,  gentlemen,  to  which  he  owes  his  success  in 
life.” 

When  we  read  his  arguments  we  cannot  help  feeling  how  the 
conditions  of  life  have  changed.  The  privateers  whom  he  prose- 
cuted were  men  who,  holding  letters  of  marque  from  Jefferson 
Davis,  captured  a vessel  belonging  to  citizens  of  the  United  States. 
The  facts  were  hardly  disputed,  the  only  defense  was  the  commis- 
sion given  by  Davis,  and  this  defense  really  raised  a question  of 
law.  It  would  seem  that  the  case  could  have  been  argued  to  the 
jury  in  an  hour  or  two  at  most,  but  Mr.  Evarts  spoke  for  the  better 
part  of  two  days.  His  argument  was  dignified,  and  most  courte- 
ous to  his  opponents,  but  it  would  surely  have  gone  over  the  heads 
of  an  ordinary  jury  to-day,  and  it  is  impossible  not  to  feel  that  it 
was  not  incisive  or  convincing.  The  same  thing  could  have  been 


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said  in  many  fewer  words  and  with  more  appeal.  The  argument 
in  behalf  of  Andrew  Johnson  was  heard  by  the  writer,  an  ardent 
young  impeacher,  and  produced  no  effect  on  his  mind.  Read 
now,  after  the  lapse  of  years,  it  seems  entirely  convincing.  It 
contains  several  passages  which  are  very  witty,  and  its  tone 
throughout  is  courteous  and  elevated.  It  is  Mr.  Evarts  at  his 
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Boston.  Moorfield  Story. 

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overcome  one  of  our  chief  limitations,  our  bondage  to  Time,  and 
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more  and  more  the  value  of  history  in  any  scheme  of  education. 
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our  curiosity.  Beginning  with  Emily  Dickinson,  his  volume  prints 
selections  from  eighty  writers ; more  than  half  are  represented  by 
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subjects  or  feeling,  and  while  this  arrangement  gives  a certain 
sense  of  unity  to  the  volume,  it  destroys  in  a measure  the  individ- 
uality of  the  writers,  for  the  lyre  passes  too  quickly  from  hand  to 
hand. 

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the  work  of  some  forty  British  poets  of  the  present;  strangely 
enough,  Masefield,  the  chief  of  all,  does  not  appear  among  them. 
Miss  Rittenhouse  prints  poems  of  twice  that  number  of  Americans; 
yet  surely  here  is  enough  poetry  from  our  old  home  to  offer  a 
basis  for  a comparison  of  British  and  American  verse.  The 
Georgian  singers  are  more  in  the  great  tradition  than  are  the 
Americans;  they  like  a richly  ladened  verse,  a deep  harmony. 
They  are  quieter,  calmer,  even  in  their  moments  of  joy  and  exhil- 
aration. They  find  beauty  in  old  English  towns  and  hamlets, 
in  hills  and  rivers  stored  with  memories  and  associations;  it  is  not 
the  earth,  it  is  their  small  bit  of  it,  that  they  love.  “Georgian 
Verse”  is  a little  Academy;  into  each  volume,  new  aspirants  are 
admitted — and  its  verse  is  at  times  traditional  and  academic. 
American  poetry  is  more  inquisitive,  more  restless;  its  tone  is 
nearer  to  every-day  speech;  its  thought  is  homelier,  closer  to 
common  experience.  There  are  more  wild  flowers  in  the  Amer- 
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the  apples  of  our  American  Hesperides.  Sandburg  and  Lindsay 
would  ruffle  the  calm  of  Georgian  music.  Certainly  there  is  a 
deeper  grace  in  De  la  Mare  than  we  find  in  the  poets  of  Miss 
Rittenhouse;  on  the  other  hand,  there  is  a directness,  a poign- 
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these  three  volumes;  and  he  will  discover  many  more. 

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in  design;  with  a remarkable  gift  for  translation,  he  has  chosen 
his  material  with  taste  and  with  a scholarship  free  from  pedantry, 
presenting  adequately  the  progress  of  French  poesy  from  the 
fourteenth  century  to  the  present.  Printing  only  translations 
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“The  Daniel  Jazz”;  “Bryan”  catches  the  wild  frenzy  of  the  free 
silver  campaign  of  1896;  “Esther”  has  fine  stanzas,  but  this 
does  not  justify  the  book.  There  is  nothing  here  to  approach 
“General  Booth,”  “The  Congo,”  “The  Chinese  Nightingale,” 
or  the  elegy  on  Altgeld,  to  mention  his  finest  work.  At  his  best, 
Mr.  Lindsay  has  a ready  sympathy,  humor,  sincerity,  original- 
ity, a keen  sense  of  rhythm,  an  abandon  of  mood  that  catches  up 
the  reader  in  its  rushing  flight;  at  his  worst  he  is  sentimental, 
verbose,  lacking  in  self-criticism,  trivial  in  his  diction,  shallow 
in  his  thought.  In  this  volume,  the  exuberance  of  spirit  seems 
artificial,  a mannerism;  we  weary  of  what  the  poet  calls  the  “jazz 
bird’s  screech”  and  “monkey-shines  and  didoes.”  His  few 
poems  in  the  two  little  “Books  of  Modern  Verse”  are  worth  all 
this  volume. 

Strength  and  ardor  are  the  distinguishing  marks  of  Mr.  Wheel- 
ock’s  verse.  Some  of  the  poems  in  “Dust  and  Light”  appear 
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mentality.  Possibly  given  overmuch  to  introspection,  at  times 
a little  over-wistful,  this  poet  gives  only  her  best.  Her  style  is 
simple,  vivid,  never  prScieuse;  there  is  perfect  ease  in  all  the 
beatity  of  these  songs.  A realist  in  “At  the  Picture  Show/’  a 
symbolist  in  “Street  Doves,”  a nature  lover  in  “Good  Company” 
and  other  poems,  the  author  of  these  verses  has  a wide  appeal  and 
a broad  vision. 

Finer  than  his  “Sappho  in  Levkas,  ” with  all  its  promise,  is  “In 
April  Once”  by  William  Alexander  Percy.  This  volume  has  all 
the  charm  and  freshness  of  the  earlier  book,  with  a deeper  and 
more  appealing  view  of  the  world.  The  past  still  throws  its  spell 
over  this  singer;  the  longest  poem  in  the  book,  filling  nearly  half 
its  pages,  is  a little  tragedy  in  a castle  near  Florence  of  the  thir- 
teenth century.  In  this  drama,  the  old  conflict  between  flesh 
and  spirit  enmeshes  the  characters;  and  it  is  indicative  of  the 
poet’s  vision  that  the  spirit  triumphs.  From  the  brutality,  the 
paganism,  the  faith  of  the  Middle  Ages,  this  writer  turns  to  the 
farmer,  home  from  the  great  war,  or  to  Australian  troopers  in 
London,  to  the  poet  in  the  inhospitable  city.  The  distinguishing 
trait  of  this  volume  is  its  spiritual  insight  and  a love  of  beauty 
expressed  with  a confident  sense  of  art. 

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public  owes  Lady  Gregory  a great  debt  for  her  service  to  Irish 
letters — as  a writer  of  comedy,  as  one  of  the  founders  of  a distin- 
guished theatre,  as  the  friend  and  patron  of  an  eminent  poet;  but 
her  field  is  modern  Ireland,  and  she  should  not  venture  into  the 
past  without  the  guidance  of  the  most  recent  scholarship. 

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gested the  title  of  Mr.  W.  B.  Yeats’s  new  book,  “The  Wild  Swans 
at  Coole.”  Long  is  it  since  this  poet,  flinging  open  the  windows 
which  looked  out  upon  a Gaelic  past  full  of  forgotten  but  distinc- 
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altered  his  manner.  Perhaps  a “sea  change”  induced  by  his 
visits  to  the  United  States  is  responsible  for  Mr.  Yeats’s  new 
method.  He  has  not  enriched  his  verse;  rather  he  has  accentuated 
its  quality  of  strangeness;  irregularities  which  once  soothed  ears 
dulled  by  the  overworked  rhythms  of  the  ’nineties  are  now  too 
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Although  from  the  two  memoirs  of  Redmond  one  may  turn 
discouraged  by  the  lack  of  accord  among  Irishmen,  yet  hope  will 
revive  upon  a reading  of  “Rural  Reconstruction  in  Ireland.” 
Messrs.  Lionel  Smith-Gordon  and  Laurence  Staples  give  an  ac- 
count of  the  co-operative  movement  which  in  the  past  thirty 
years  has  done  much  to  unite  Irishmen.  They  point  out  that 
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were  in  no  way  involved,  but  continued  their  work  undisturbed.” 
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is  a book  which  cannot  be  neglected  by  anyone  interested  in  the 
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subject  and  have  viewed  it  in  relation  to  allied  problems.  There  is, 
however,  a formalism  that,  to  one  who  is  neither  economist  nor 
agriculturist,  becomes  wearisome. 

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complete  independence  that  is  the  corner-stone  of  the  Sinn  Fein 
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a sympathetic  understanding  of  the  Irish  national  spirit. 

To  interpret  the  real  spirit  of  Gaelic  Ireland  is  the  endeavor  of 
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tall  pages  of  clear  type,  with  the  addition  of  nearly  two  hundred 
illustrations,  will  please  the  lover  of  the  theatre  and  satisfy  the 
student.  It  is  so  strongly  fortified  by  names  and  dates,  so  good  an 
example  of  honest  and  painstaking  research,  that  it  takes  immedi- 
ately its  place  as  a standard  and  authoritative  history,  not  likely 
to  be  superseded. 

It  does  not  claim  to  be  a history  of  the  drama,  nor  a work  of 
literary  criticism.  It  is  an  account,  in  chronological  order,  of  the 
founding  of  theatres,  in  every  locality  in  America,  with  the  names 
of  the  plays  first  produced,  the  men  and  women  in  the  cast,  the 
financial  success  or  failure  of  every  undertaking,  the  subsequent 
careers  of  the  more  important  artists.  The  buildings — stage  and 
auditorium — are  described  in  detail,  and  an  accurate  estimate 
can  be  made  of  local  popular  support.  The  enormous  difficulties 
of  presenting  plays  in  primitive  surroundings  during  the  eighteenth 
century  make  a narrative  that  would  seem  fantastic  if  it  were  not 
true.  Actors  and  actresses  had  to  penetrate  trackless  forests 
and  float  along  strange  rivers — their  indomitable  courage,  the 
courage  of  the  pioneer,  triumphed  over  apparently  insuperable 
obstacles  and  dangers. 

Some  of  the  most  interesting  chapters  in  this  book  describe 
the  visits  to  America  of  the  English  stars,  Edmund  Kean  and 
Macready,  together  with  the  riots  that  unfortunately  made 
these  excursions  even  more  dramatic  than  was  the  original  inten- 
tion. A great  deal  can  be  learned  about  mob  spirit  and  mob 
psychology  from  these  pages.  Individuals  may  be  educated,  but 
you  can  never  educate  the  mob — it  is  the  same  brute  in  all  coun- 
tries and  in  all  ages. 

Much  pleasanter  reading  follows  when  we  come  to  the  golden 
days  of  theatre  management  in  America — the  days  of  the  great 
three,  Wallack,  Palmer,  and  Daly.  These  men,  as  Mr.  Hornblow 
justly  observes,  “belonged  to  that  school  of  managers  whom  we 
find  in  control  of  the  leading  theatres  in  Europe — men  of  culture, 
refinement,  and  scholarship.”  The  modern  theatre  manager  is 
a speculator,  a “business-man,”  as  indeed  many  seem  to  believe  a 
college  president  should  be. 

William  Lyon  Phelps. 

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than  from  its  literary  enemies.  Doctrinaire  Liberals  and  dog- 
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The  first  half  deals  briefly  and  effectively  with  the  relation  of 
labor  to  early  reform  movements  as  brought  out  in  the  longer  and 
earlier  studies  of  Carlton,  Commons,  and  others.  It  is  only  the 
second  half  that  deals  with  controversial  matters.  Here  also 
Professor  Carlton’s  work  is  effective  in  that  he  carries  the  reader 
into  the  heart  of  the  subject  by  bringing  up  all  the  live  and 
crucial  issues.  But  his  frank  policy  of  taking  a decided  stand 
upon  most  of  them  himself  makes  it  highly  desirable  that  his 
standpoint  should  be  grasped  by  the  reader,  in  advance  if 
practicable. 


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Mr.  Ray  Stannard  Baker  was  admirably  equipped  for  the  task 
of  writing  “The  New  Industrial  Unrest”  by  his  ability  to  gather 
and  mobilize  data,  by  his  gifts  as  a writer,  and  by  his  long  expe- 
rience in  dealing  with  this  vast  complex  of  problems.  His  point 
of  view,  too,  should  satisfy  the  most  critical.  Asked  “ What  is  the 
solution  of  the  problem?” — he  says  he  felt  like  asking  in  return, 
“What  is  the  solution  of  the  problem  of  life?”  That  he  does 
not  get  very  far,  or  contribute  anything  fundamentally  new 
towards  the  “solution,”  is  then  scarcely  surprising  or  derogatory 
to  his  picture  of  the  present  situation — perhaps  as  comprehensive 
as  his  space  permits. 

While,  with  his  carefully  balanced  views,  Mr.  Baker  does  not 
offer  organized  labor  any  support,  he  does  fully  recognize  its 
growing  power — more  fully  it  would  seem  than  does  the  President* 
For  he  writes:  “To  any  honest  observer  who  surveys  the  devel- 
opments of  the  last  twenty-five  years  it  is  clear  that,  while  they 
have  lost  the  battles,  the  workers  are  winning  the  war.  . . * 
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outright  programme  of  the  radicals  that  labor  must  rule,  yet  the 
whole  drift  of  the  labor  movement  is  in  that  direction.” 

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radical  wing  of  this  radical  movement.  We  can  only  say  that 
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and  neither  his  knowledge  of  the  labor  movement  nor  his  grasp  of 
current  social  theories  can  be  questioned.  The  critical  and  de- 


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